Our annual crop needs a birthday cake.......

[fjlip]

Extremely sad for you and all farmers SMASHED by water/snow/cold!

We might never get a crop in either, conditions horrible and if any RAIN...done.

Crop ins should say burn all crop out and PAY! Enough torture already assholes.

Every news cast bragging about young optimistic farmers yesterday... wow they must not be having spirit crushing weather.
And crop/livestock prices at record levels?

[grassfarmer]

Just a thought from my out of the box perspective - if there aren't crop insurance requirements to harvest unswathed crops could you not just leave it and see what grows? We seem to have enough wheat seed in the soil to germinate a crop every year and that's just what went over the back of the combine several years ago.

[LEP]

Grassy, likely as not it won't grow. My best germ from last years crop was 42% and the worst was 14%.

We plugged the return so many times last on account of damp grain, I lost count. Not one kernel has germinated.

[danny W1M]

big Wheel,,,, burning crops puts Carbon into the atmosphere.

[grassfarmer]

How high germination would you need though LEP? 40 bu crop with 10% germination would give you 4 bu acre of seed. Maybe it's a crazy idea but in a situation like this where the guy has cattle and can silage or greenfeed it just thought it might be worth considering.

[Horse]

GF I had the same thoughts but it would be my luck it would grow and 60 bu/acre seed is a bit heavy. Besides I still have last yr hay that no one wants so why make more feed ?

[woodland]

Grassfarmer the last thing I want to seed on these fields is wheat. It's all on rented land and due to a snafu with the landlord it's been in wheat for two years now. The disease wasn't bad since the first year was so dry hardly anything grew anyways. We started combining swathes and it's gotta be running over 40 bushels and our grain buyer/ fertilizer guy was out today and said if it's 55 pounds it's worth $4.50 even with fuzzy kernels. Going to try a go tonight to finish the swathes since the weatherman is calling for three days of rain, two days of sun and another two of rain.
Most dust I've seen since September 2015

[woodland]

GF I had the same thoughts but it would be my luck it would grow and 60 bu/acre seed is a bit heavy. Besides I still have last yr hay that no one wants so why make more feed ?

Horse I'll second that. We put up 20,000 tonnes of silage last year and before that the most we did was 6,000. I've got four years of feed in our pits and need some grain to sell. Silage is like money in the bank to us but doesn't pay bills today. We chopped from July 10 till December 10 and chopping in hills on frozen ground was wayyyyy too much fun.
Good lightning storm and rain starting. I'd say the pasture will like it but it's been so cold it's hardly growing. Floating fertilizer on alfalfa today here.

[redleaf]

Woodland I hope the weather gives you a break and you can make some good progress with your situation. Mother Nature can be pretty uncooperative. A bit off topic however I am curious about your fert. floating rig. Is that your own design ?

[farmaholic]

Neat innovation on the floater woodland.